January 1, 2023:
Resistance, even from the elements.
Trees down, roads closed, liquid sky. Days and weeks unable to reach the house I'm leaving; others when reaching it requires absurd circuitous circumlocutions through backroads constricted by new rivers and new flood planes. Where it feels personal, as though some force with control of nature deliberately seeks to impede my movement.
What force? What agenda? To keep little me immobilized? Who would care?
First foot forward.
They make it so hard.
Second foot forward.
They make it so hard.
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